I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDo not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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